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ARMOUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. 

EXTRACTS FROM CHICAGO PAPERS. 



{Chicago Tribune, May 8th, iqoi.) 
"TFXH" MEN IN DEMAND. 



MANUFACTURERS SEEK ARMOUR SCHOOL 
GRADUATES. 



Companies in Many States Offer Posi- 
tions to Students of the Chicago In- 
stitute — Entire Senior Class Will Enter 
Business After Commencement Next 
Mouth — Dean Alderson Gives Out a 
List of the Positions Open to His Pupils 
This Year. 

From all over the country manufactur- 
ing firms are sending to Chicago for 
technical school graduates to work in 
their plants. T n a little over a month the 
entire graduating class of Armour Insti- 
tute of Technology will leave school to 
take up positions of responsibility with 
manufacturing firms where capable engi- 
neers are desired. In a dozen or more 
States, Armour graduates will soon be at 
work in positions which until recently 
were thought to be available only to men 
who had advanced by work in the shops. 

Dean Alderson of Armour Institute has 
given out a list of positions which his stu- 
dents are now considering before making 
final decision. 

Some Positions for Graduates. 

The Philadelphia mint will take an 
Armour graduate, who will work on the 
electrical methods of refining gold. 

A position in the Yerkes Observatory 
at Lake Geneva, Wis., is open to a mem- 
ber of the graduating class who complet?s 
a general engineering and scientific 
course. 

A graduate will go as resident engineer 
for the Gulf Company at Belle Island, 
La., where deposits of salt, oil, and gyp- 
sum are worked. 

The Institute will furnish an assistant 
to the chief engineer at the Anglo-Amer- 
ican Provision Company at the Stock 
Yards in Chicago. In the remodeling of 
the plant, which will be started soon, the 
latest knowledge of general construction 
and the most effective use of all the 
power is required from the engineers. 

A student expects to go into the gov- 
ernment service with the government 
survey. 



Mechanical Engineers in Demand- 

Among other positions for which Ar- 
mour men are sought are: 

Mechanical engineer for Fairbanks, 
Morse & Co., Beloit, Wis. 

Mechanical engineer for C. S. Bell 
Company, Hillsboro, O., manufacturers 
of feed mills, evaporators, etc. 

Several electrical engineers for the 
General Electric Company at Schenec- 
tady, N. Y. 

Several mechanical engineers for the 
Parlin & Orendorff Company, Canton, 111. 

Two technical men for the Chicago 
Glucose Sugar Refining Company. 

Several general assistants for the 
Lynn (Mass.) Works of the General 
Electric Company. 

Three electrical engineers for the West- 
inghouse Electrical Company at East 
Pittsburg. 

Draftsmen for the Chicago Telephone 
Company. 

Mechanical engineer for the American 
Clock Company. 

Mechanical engineer for the Swartz- 
child & Sulzsberger Company, packers, 
Chicago. 

Technical men for the Whiting Foun- 
dry Equipment Company at Harvey, 111. 

Mechanical engineer for the John Davis 
Company, steamfitters' supplies, Chicago. 

General consulting engineer for a South 
Omaha (Neb.) packing company. 

Engineer for Lake Shore Railroad car 
shops at Elkhart, Ind. 

Technical men for Union Special Sew- 
ing Machine Company at Chicago. 

Get Places for Old Graduates. 

"Besides the positions open to seniors," 
said Dean Alderson, "we have from time 
to time this year found places for engi- 
neers who have recently graduated from 
Armour. A short time ago an Armour 
graduate was sent out to take the place 
of superintendent and chief engineer of 
the Oakland Consolidated Street Railway 
Company at Oakland, Cal. A zinc min- 
ing company at Joplin, Mo., also took one 
of our men recently. The calls we are 
getting from all parts of the country for 
engineers makes a good deal of ejctra 
work at the Institute. In giving the 
seniors the list of places, I excluded, of 
course, a large list of inferior positions 
which none of them would wish." 



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{Chicago Tribune^ May yth, rgoi.) 

Demand for Capable Engineers in All 
Sections Largely Exceeds the Number 
of Graduates in This Year's Class. 

Members of the Senior Class of the 
Armour Institute of Technology were 
called together yesterday by*Dean Alder- 
son to choose from a large assortment of 
positions which will be open to them 
after graduation in June. For every 
graduate there was a choice of two or 
more offers from firms about the country 
employing trained engineers. 

The demand for graduate engineers 
has increased so much within the last 
year that the head of the school has been 
receiving requests from all parts of the 
country for capable young men. There 
are but seventeen graduates this year 
from the civil, mechanical and electrical 
departments of the Institute, and a list of 
the most desirable offers was made up 
and the members of the class told to 
make their decision after their own 
wishes. 

"This is the first year there has been 
opportunity for such a meeting of seniors 
to be called, "said Uean Alderson. "Here- 
tofore we were able to secure appoint- 
ments for most of our seniors before 
graduation, but never has there been 
such a clamor for trained men. Our 
senior employment bureau hereafter will 
be a considerable part of our work. The 
reason for the increased demand for 
capable engineers is that so many have 
been employed in recent years who were 
graduates from Armour and similar insti- 
tutions that large concerns look to col- 
leges for trained men." 



( Chicago Intei' Ocean, Editorial, May o, 
i go i.) 

IN DEMAND. 

It was a matter of the greatest pride to 
the late P. D. Armour that as fast as the 
Institute which bears his name could turn 
out finished engineers they were snapped 
up by the great concerns of this country. 
In a recent address Dr. Frank \V. Gun- 
saulus referred to the fact that every 
graduate of the Institute had found 
speedy and remunerative employment 
upon leaving the school. Acting Presi- 
dent Alderson has also lately touched 
upon the same point. 

The annual catalogues print lists of the 
graduates who have been called to posi- 
tions, showing their location and the na- 
ture of their employment. A few days 
ago one of the chiefs of departments in 
the Illinois Steel Company in addressing 
the Armour students made the statement 
that the great manufacturing concerns of 
the country were waiting impatiently for 
young men such as the Armour Institute 
turns out annually. He assured the stu- 
dents that they had but to master the 
tasks set before them to achieve success 
in the world. 

It is now announced that the graduates 
of this year are in demand, and that ex- 
cellent positions are already awaiting 
most of them. " Never before," says one 
report, "have manufacturing firms sent in 
so many demands for young engineers." 

All this is simply confirmatory of the 
predictions made by eminent educators 
and business men in all parts of the coun- 
try last summer. The demand for hands 
and minds thoroughly trained to deal 
with the industrial problems of the period 
is increasing on all sides. The experi- 
ence of Armour Institute of Technology 
in this respect does not differ from that of 
the other great technical schools of the 
country, except in that Armour Institute, 
as a result of the beneficence of its 
founder and his widow and son, is better 
equipped than many of the others to meet 
the increased demands of the times for 
thoroughly trained engineers. 



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